Stone Hearted

            I was in my office looking at x-rays and this man slowly comes in my office one day.  He said his heart was, all of the sudden, feeling weird. He didn’t seem sad or scared. I asked him when it started to feel weird and he said it began only two nights ago. He said he was watching a really sad movie and he was crying like it was drizzling in his head. Then, all of the sudden, it started to get all tingly and he stopped crying. He said that he quickly stopped crying for the rest of the movie and he hasn’t cried or been scared ever since.
         I told him to go to the dark x-ray room. I took x-rays of his heart and then looked at them. I let out a huge gasp. "You have a heart of stone!!" I yelled out. He asked if I can do anything about it and I said yes. I led him to the big surgery room. I gave him sleeping gas and he passed out just like that. I rapidly took out a small chisel, a hammer, a brush, and a pair of scissors. I cut open his chest and I started the surgery. I took the chisel and hammer and chipped off the stone covering. First I took the stone covering off the right ventricle and then the left. After that I chipped off all the rest. I took the brush and I brushed off all the little stone dust off the heart. I sewed up his chest and turned off the sleeping gas and let him rest.
      A few minutes later I checked on him. He was sitting up in his bed crying. I asked what was the matter? He had on the TV and he was watching a sad movie. He thanked me and an hour later he left.

By
 Keith

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